Cloud Capacity Engineer: Forecasting, Automation & Growth

GCS Recruitment Specialists; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own capacity planning, forecasting, and automation for large-scale cloud environments in Wilmington, Delaware. You will build models, sizing tools, and automated processes to optimize resource utilization and scalability.

You'll collaborate with application, infrastructure, deployment, andFinance teams to validate designs, BOMs, and procurement while delivering measurable efficiency gains and risk reduction through

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, or a related field.
• Experience with private cloud or enterprise infrastructure.
• Knowledge of compute platforms, virtualization, storage, and networking.
• Experience with infrastructure forecasting, modeling, or utilization analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience building automation or improving technical processes.
• Ability to work across application and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and support capacity planning solutions for private cloud infrastructure.
• Build tools that size and forecast infrastructure requirements.
• Develop models to predict future compute resource requirements.
• Analyze utilization and performance of compute and storage resources.
• Support capacity management for VM and container platforms.
• Forecast data center power, rack, and cooling requirements.
• Assist with cloud infrastructure architecture and design.
• Help validate infrastructure designs, bills of materials, and procurement requirements.
• Partner with compute, storage, and network engineers.
• Provide recommendations around infrastructure scaling and future growth.
• Identify opportunities to reclaim unused or underutilized capacity.
• Analyze capacity thresholds and identify potential infrastructure risks.
• Support infrastructure budgeting and future technology demand planning.
• Build and improve automated processes and capacity planning tools.
• Document planning processes and communicate recommendations across technical teams.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Capacity planning

Automation

Data modeling

Forecasting

Job description

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own capacity planning, forecasting, and automation for large-scale cloud environments in Wilmington, Delaware. You will build models, sizing tools, and automated processes to optimize resource utilization and scalability.

You'll collaborate with application, infrastructure, deployment, andFinance teams to validate designs, BOMs, and procurement while delivering measurable efficiency gains and risk reduction through